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In its press release, the team made no mention of the racial controversy, instead emphasizing the military symbolism of the graphic elements in the redesigned "W" primary logo that goes along with the new name. The design of the new "crest" combines elements of the team's history and its connection to the city of Washington. [29]
The club name and logo previously used by Major League Baseball's Cleveland Guardians were the subject of significant controversy. The Guardians, an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio , were known as the Cleveland Indians from 1915 to 2021, and their branding used Native American imagery and caricatures through much of ...
In 2013, Scott Sypolt, Executive Counsel for the American Indian Center weighed in on the logo and name controversy by stating, "There is a consensus among us that there's a huge distinction between a sports team called the Redskins depicting native people as red, screaming, ignorant savages and a group like the Blackhawks honoring Black Hawk ...
Whether it be a subtle image tweak, font change, or a drastic design overhaul, when brands made these logo changes, they received some major backlash. 7 recent controversial logo changes Skip to ...
Vanderbilt underwent a controversial rebrand, changing its logos from the current "star V" to a new block V.
Daines called the logo depicting Blackfeet Chief Two Guns White Calf an “honor” to him. It was designed by the late Blackie Wetzel , a Blackfeet tribal member once prominent in Indian affairs ...
The first action in the dispute occurred in 1992, when Suzan Shown Harjo, President of the Morning Star Institute, with six other prominent Native Americans represented by the Dorsey & Whitney law firm of Minneapolis, petitioned the USPTO to cancel the trademark registrations owned by the Redskins' corporate entity of Pro-Football, Inc. (now known as Pro-Football, LLC).
For her part, Chadwick appreciates that the new logo aims, as she did, to reach back into history for “an ancient quality.” And, she allows, using the Chinese characters selected “is ...